stupid and recovering from a bullet...

stupid and recovering from a bullet harm 12-year-old Danielle Bailey reclined in the chair of her hospital expanse Wednesday and mumbled to a foment that she wanted to "travel" the hallways.

She [i]finale[/i]ed up staying put, and the supply with nourishment helped to open her right judgment to get a peek at the steady stream of family and friends who came to Comer Children's Hospital offering get-well and birthday wishes. With her face swollen and her head bandaged, she couldn't unclose her left eye after surgery to withdraw bullet fragments from a shooting Sunday, her birthday.

It was about 8 pm when Danielle had left her residence in the 6100 block of southerly Evans to see if anyone wanted to pass with her to the corner store for a soda, said her friend and neighbor Porscha James, 11 Danielle had just exhausted the day singing in her temple choir and cutting a CD with friends -- aided through a karaoke machine.

unexpectedly gunfire erupted.

"Everyone just went running inside," Porscha recalled during a hospital visit Wednesday.

Danielle recalled seeing a flash of sky-colored and running toward her house, leaving the same of her blue sandals behind.

Danielle's parents already had hasten outside to see what was going in succession

Dierdre Harris couldn't believe it. Her daughter was running toward her, line dripping from her face.

"She said 'Mom I've been shot' " Harris, 37 said.

The girl's father, Larry Bailey, 49 said he went inside and called 911 As they waited for an ambulance, Bailey couldn't obtain over how his daughter comforted her distraught parents. "She stopped right there in the way and prayed," he said, telling him " 'Don't worry Daddy, I'm not gonna die.' She walked to the ambulance. She not at all lost consciousness. She's a sinewy girl. She's a blessed girl," her father said.

SUSPECT CHARGED

Danielle might be hearthstone in a matter of days, if it be not that it could be up to eight weeks before she starts seventh-grade classes at Till Math & Science indoctrinate Plastic surgeon Dr. McKay McKinnon said it's too early to know by what mode her left eye will be affected.

Police have arrested the alleged shooter 20-year-old Stanley Burrell He was charged with unlawful use of a weapon in the incident, which investigators think was an argument through a dice game.

Now, Larry Bailey wants to diocese the neighborhood come together and present an end to the violence, and he has a suggestion to the suspect in this case:

"Try the eternal for a while; that's what he straits to do."

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